
Richard Dreyfuss
Known for department: Acting
Birthday: 1947-10-29
Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Richard Dreyfuss (born October 29, 1947) is an American actor. He has starred in film, television, and theater roles since the late 1960s, including the films American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Goodbye Girl, Stakeout, Always, What About Bob? and Mr. Holland's Opus. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1977 for The Goodbye Girl, and was nominated in 1995 for Mr. Holland's Opus. He has also won a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, and was nominated in 2002 for Screen Actors Guild Awards in the Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series and Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries categories.
Known for

Stand by Me
1986The Writer
Poseidon
2006Richard Nelson
Jaws
1975Hooper
Mr. Holland's Opus
1995Glenn Holland
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
2022Narrator (voice)
W.
2008Dick Cheney
James and the Giant Peach
1996Centipede (voice)
American Graffiti
1973Curt Henderson
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977Roy Neary
What About Bob?
1991Dr. Leo Marvin
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
1994Self
Tin Men
1987Bill 'BB' Babowsky
Stakeout
1987Det. Chris Lecce
Always
1989Pete Sandich
Victory at Entebbe
1976Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
Fail Safe
2000President
My Life in Ruins
2009Irv Gideon
Catch-22
1973Yossarian
Postcards from the Edge
1990Dr. Frankenthal